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the myths of "green" energy and the real fuels of the future

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Power hungry

the myths of "green" energy and the real fuels of the future

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Another contrarian assessment of America's energy situation--and the gulf between the goals of the green movement and our vast need for power--by the author of Gusher of Lies. Armed with fully footnoted facts and revealing graphics, Bryce explains why most of the hype about renewable energy and "green" technology is just that--hype. He shows why renewable sources like wind and solar are not "green" and why they cannot provide the scale of energy that the world demands. He negates the notion that the US wastes huge amounts of energy. Indeed, the facts show that over the past three decades the US has been among the world's best at reducing its energy intensity, carbon intensity, and per-capita energy use. He goes on to skewer electric cars, T. Boone Pickens, and Denmark as an "energy smart" model, and explains what will really be needed to transform the global energy sector.--From publisher description.

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Table of Contents

Author's note
Introduction : The Cardinal Mine : a point of beginning
Part one : Our quest for power.
Power tripping 101
Happy talk
Watt's the big deal? (Power tripping 102)
Sidebar : Power equivalencies of various engines, motors, and appliances, in horsepower and watts
Wood to coal to oil : the slow pace of energy transitions
Coal hard facts
Sidebar : From Pearl Street to EveryGenerator.com : a story of rising power density and falling costs
If oil didn't exist, we'd have to invent it
Twenty-seven Saudi Arabias per day
Part two : The myths of "green" energy.
Myth : wind and solar are "green"
Sidebar : All about power density : a comparison of various energy sources in horsepower and watts
Myth : wind power reduces CO2 emissions
Myth : Denmark provides an energy model for the United States
Myth : T. Boone Pickens has a plan (or a clue)
Sidebar : Bird kills? What bird kills?
Myth : wind power reduces the need for natural gas
Myth : going "green" will reduce imports of strategic commodities and create "green" jobs
Myth : the United States lags in energy efficiency
Myth : the United States can cut CO2 emissions by 80 percent by 2050, and carbon capture and sequestration can help achieve that goal
Myth : taxing carbon dioxide will work
Myth : oil is dirty
Myth : cellulosic ethanol can scale up and cut U.S. oil imports
Myth : electric cars are the next big thing
Myth : we can replace coal with wood
Part three : The power of N2N.
Why N2N? And why now? (the megatrends favoring natural gas and nuclear)
A very short history of American natural gas and regulatory stupidity
Sidebar : Stripper power!
It's a gas, gas, gas : welcome to the "gas factory"
Sidebar : Elephant hunting : comparing the Barnett shale and the East Texas field
America's secret Google
Gas pains
Nuclear goes beyond green
Sidebar : The real story on subsidies
A smashing idea for nuclear waste
Future nukes
Part four : Moving forward.
Rethinking "green" and a few other suggestions
Toward cheap, abundant energy
Appendixes.
Units and equivalents
SI numerical designations
America's convoluted energy regulatory structure
Countries ranked by primary energy consumption, 2007
U.S. and world primary energy consumption, by source, 1973 and 2008
Notes
Glossary

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York, NY

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
333.79
Library of Congress
HD9502.5.C542 B79 2010, HD9502.5.C542B79

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xix, 394 p.
Dimensions
25 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24039902M
ISBN 10
1586487892
ISBN 13
9781586487898
LCCN
2010001655
OCLC/WorldCat
301887684

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